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CARMEN PROETTA - GIBRALTAR WITNESS TO IRA EXECUTIONS
A LONELY WITNESS TO MASSACRE
Window to Hell.
She stood elegantly before a hushed, restrained court, every inch the beauty Queen who had not asked to be there. Her composure was on the brink of collapse. She feared the worst but was determined to see it all through after the years of threats, defamation, and perhaps removal from the scene by sinister means. Carmen, a young Gibraltarian housewife, whose only claim to this unusual stardom was standing at her apartment window and seeing three people gunned down, in an act that challenged every nerve of her Christian mind. Carmen, an unduly sensitive woman with an iron will of her very own, survived the enormous ordeal of challenging the chicanery of the very State and the woman who later said with gusto, “I pulled the trigger” . This woman who happened to be no other than the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, in her unmistakeable manner, summoned every British sinew to support her every action in what she described as the fight for the integrity of the nation. The very President of Ireland himself, had no option, but to question that very intelligence when asked to bale her out. “If it had not been done with such lack of intelligence, I might have perhaps been able to help” or very similar words to that effect.
For the hapless, Carmen Proetta, the vision of horror with bullet after bullet exploding horrifically inches within the body surfaces and spouting human blood there was nothing British about it. Cries of help from people with hands held up clearly above their heads were to remain engraved forever on her mind. Innocent people in terms of presumed innocence, summarily mown down, without help or jury to determine their guilt, were clawing the air for life, right in front of her very eyes. A fleeing victim, shot in the back and a soldier`s boot smashing into a rib cage to stop that pumping heart, put the final authoritiative scenes into place and seen clearly by another silenced, unwilling witness. The young, happily married main witness, a woman looking forward to a life of glamour and sunshine frolics on the Costa del Sol where she had a second home, was spiritually dead. Her very life had just been forfeited in that very instant as she became a witness for the prosecution of the very State of Gibraltar and that of Britain of which she was a noble citizen. What was to follow eventually ended up in the Guiness Book of Records and hundreds of web pages to the effect. She won case after case against the hounding Press - no doubt forming part of that trigger that tragically, painfully and obscenely destroyed lives – lives which however perversive could not have merited such unconstitutional, fearsome, public executions. They were, after all, supposed terrorists – with an amount of apparent evidence with respect to one of them. They were supposedly (and inexplicably under the circumstances), about to blow up a car in the middle of nowhere or just when a parade was about to go by. Whatever, future evidence and indeed instant appraisal by those with a bit of British common sense, showed clearly that the whole scenario was a minutely planned exercise designed to produce a viable, publicly acceptable, shoot-to-kill decision.
An assault on the senses
For Carmen however, none of this had anything to do with the numbness and terrifying assault to her senses (and that of many others effectively silenced) that the scene from hell produced. Neither was she aware of the complete bag of tricks that would be thrown at her to deter her from her sense of duty, which her British and Gibraltarian supported scale of values made quite clear. Any mere mortal would have succumbed at the very first signs of public hatred whipped up by a manipulated British Press. What Margaret Thatcher and the various departments of state involved in her own, very exclusive manner of swatting irritants, did not know, was that Carmen Proetta, of diehard, Genoese descent, was as unbendable even to her own family, as any mere mortal could be. Carmen, possessed with the spirit and confidence of a naturally intelligent woman with a photographic mind, equalled the Iron Lady, in every respect except her loathing of lies and manipulated truths. It was this that was to later make her such a champion of British legal victims of the Coast. Thatcher had met her match and every attempt to destroy Carmen´s credibility fell on the very rocks that parody the part of the Peninsular itself. For Carmen, the lives destroyed had to be accounted for and every sleepless night, and admonishment, from terrified members of her own family, fell on those selfsame pillars which kept her alive, meaningful and happy.
In her early life, Carmen had always been a beauty Queen by right. Her leggy, voluptousness, much made of by the sleezy press, gave her instant access to the lights and critical appraisal of the glamour crowd. Kim Novak was a close pale copy, if character was anything to go by. Anyone meeting Carmen head on, knew what that meant. Her walkouts when unfairly challenged and misunderstood, paid tribute to a stubborness that only Thatcher would have identified with. The pity lies in Carmen´s lost opportunities as her future lay in potential ruin with sick cries of prostitution, Mafia connections and accusations of sly, behind the scenes payments, for standing against her national heritage. A long story which ended with the first of the realistic evaluations of the massacres by the Television analysis, “Shadow on the Rock”, was crowded with every attempt to dissuade her from standing up and being counted. If shame should every fall on the machinations of a State and a slur on democracy, then this botch up of a security measure, would hit the neon lights of international notoriety with calculated aim. There is no need to go into a minute study of the events leading up to the killings, to know that it was a politically motivated, vengeful act of hatred, of historic proportions. What must be understood however, that the resulting outcry from a very vulnerable, unaided housewife, came from a heart provoked by two distinct sources – her passionate love of her community and her disgust for people who took lives so mercilessly. An additional factor, was the clear indication that the gunned figures had surrendered to the challenge by the armed persons by putting their arms up and that shooting them down was obviously unnecessary. Carmen was then unaware of the nature and motivation behind the killings, but was to understand to her horror, very soon, when the packaged information, too slickly presented with an overdose of lined up information, flashed on the television screen so neatly. She knew then, that the victims included a young boy on holiday - that they were all Irish Catholics and that Gibraltar was in very grave danger of becoming a bloody battleground that could destroy hundreds if not thousands of innocent local lives. The fact that it was Thatcher, the British Prime Minister behind it, who was in the front line, did not mitigate a massacre of this scale, in a small, highly exposed community, incapable of defending itself.
A small community in a nightmare
The local fear was highlighted by denouncements of a critical few locally who were spurned by the rest and thought that the act had been a necessary step in the prevention of the explosion that would have taken place otherwise. Carmen like thousands of others who realised that the so called facts made little sense, had little choice, but to stand up and say, at least, what she saw. Who, why and wherefore, was not her concern and at the end of the day, what she did, helped to soften angry hearts determined to make every stone bleed in return, including those in the land where the lives had been taken. The chilling presence of the family of the slaughtered at the unreal petrol pumps of the station where the lives had been taken, made every local citizen experience an emotion never felt before. This lonely, brave citizen effectivley saved Gibraltar´s honour and unwittingly became an unsung hero much taken to by Irish Catholics who followed every step of her crucifiction culminating at the trial which took place in Gibraltar – a book, a song, a garland of lillies from a culture which took her straight to its heart. There is no doubt whatsoever in the full meaning of the events, that the ugly petrol station in which three people lost their lives at the hands of others would have been the first of the many centres of such depravities that would have taken place in the small tinder box of this British piece of territory. Crammed tight with local citizens, including descendants of the very Irish themselves and raw navies in every construction placement, this Catholic stronghold, would have suffered an unworthy fate. Whether or not Carmen had stood up, the ex Governor of Gibraltar shot down some time later, would have been hit in any case but the bomb that was apparently diffused in a Main Street shopping arcade and to which site the local authorites were guided, would have been the first of a great many that thankfully, never came.
An unexpected heroine.
Carmen, did not set out to be a heroine and certainly not a prophet in her own land, but it must be assumed that it takes guts, very strong guts to challenge the very State that feeds and protects you. That protection was removed. The status in which she is held by those who understand what she stood for, is however, worthy of one who shows us all up when it comes to deciding between creature comfort and principles supposedly bred into Christians and British citizens, on those laps for which the State pretends to be so responsible for. Whatever the bloody prelude to the event and the outrage that they produce in the minds of those brought up on ethical values shaken by terrorism, the convenient removal of those values under the guise of social interests, for similar pursuits, makes little sense and only helps to further erode the despair of the young, clinging to flimsy reasons for staying alive. Today, top social experts and writers agree that terrorism is a symptom of an underlying malady which has to addressed before political action can be justly applied. Whilst this is not always possible in the short term, at medium and long term level the results of transparent dialogue on both sides thems often dictate the next course of mutual decisions. What happened in Gibraltar was a clear indication of calculated terrorism of its own variety born of vengeance and lack of genuine intelligence involving thousands of innocent accomplices. Nobody seriously well informed with respect to the event, believes it to be anymore than a hamfisted scenario planned well before its D Day.
Today, a tired but happy Spanish Court interpreter with hundreds of British families grateful for those special privileges and advise received outside line of duty, is grateful to be alive to be able to perform them. Her close family, still a target of a frustrated and sick few, carry on regardless, convinced that their high standards of education, principles and public acceptance, are due to her creative authority. This authority is shared with the same husband/father Maxi who lived those concerns for so long and some say, perhaps, with greater protective intensity.
About the Author
Parliamentary correspondentage at 15. Royal touring writer. Agency journalist. Publisher Britain's first trade journal for drivers. Travel writer and millionaire businessman, hotelier, restauranteur. Contributor to Holy Blood and Holy Grail. Messianic Legacy. Sword and the Grail. Articles published in wide variety of British and Commonwealth Journals. Freeman of the City of London Author Al Andalus - a trail of discovery.Link
